Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sandra E. Weissinger, Dwayne A. Mack, and Elwood Watson
PART I
There is No Time for Despair: (Re) Working the Racial Order
1 The Fires of Racial Discontent are Burning! Intensely!
Elwood Watson
2 Rage and Activism: The Promise of Black Lives Matter
Deborah J. Cohan
3 Racialized Homophobic and Transphobic Violence
Kathleen Fitzgerald
PART II
The Space of trauma: Violence to the Psyche, Body, and Home
4 When No Place is Safe: Violence Against Black Youth
Sandra E. Weissinger and Venessa A. Brown
5 Death by Residential Segregation and the Post-Racial Myth
Lori Latrice Martin, Kenneth Fasching-Varner, and Tifanie Pulley
6 Vigilant Vagrants: The Turbulent Tale of the Queer Black Man
Maurice Davis
PART III
Media Fallacies: Stereotypes and Other Obliterations of Black Realities
7 The Revelatory Racial Politics of The Sopranos: Black and Brown Bodies and Storylines as
Props and Backdrop in the Normalization of Whiteness
Jessica Maucione
8 From Mammy to Black-ish: The Perceived Evolution of the Black American Typecast
Kelle Neal
9 For the World to See: Bestiality Against Black Bodies and the Deleterious Effects of
Predisposed Media Disclosure
Cedric. D. Hackett
10 It’s "Young Black Kids Doing It": Biased Media Portrayals of the Deviant in Britain?
Monia O’Brien Castro
PART IV
Stone Walls: The Invisible Hand of Institutional Racism
11 "The Multicultural Dilemma": Ignoring Racism in the Works of James Howard Kunstler
Michael Potts
12 Callous Cruelty: The School-to-Prison Pipeline as Violence Against Black and Brown
Bodies
Elyshia Aseltine
13 Blood at the Root: The False Equivalency of External and Internal Violence Against Blacks
in Obama’s America
Kareem Muhammad
14 Trigger Happy Policing: Racialized Violence against Black Bodies in Academic Spaces
Dwayne A. Mack and Felicia W. Mack
Contributor Biographies